Guwahati, August 1 : The Federation of Industry & Commerce of North Eastern Region (FINER), in association with MSME-DI, Guwahati and Quality Council of India, New Delhi organized a day long Awareness campaign on Quality Management Standard & Quality Technology Tools. The aim of the campaign is to enhance the productivity and competitiveness as well as capacity building of Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) and their collectives in the North Eastern Region. The venue for the campaign was the Hotel Gateway Grandeur, Guwahati on Friday.

The main objective of the Seminar was to support the sustainability and growth of MSEs by addressing common issues faced such as improvement of technology, skills and quality, to build capacity of MSEs for common supportive action. This is to be achieved through formation of self help groups, consortia, improving associations, to upgrade infrastructural facilities in the new/existing industrial areas/ clusters of MSEs, and to set up common facility centres. The common facility centres would be for testing, training centres, raw material depots, effluent treatment, complementing production processes, etc.

Amit Kr Jain, Vice-Chairman, FINER mentioned about the importance of organizing such seminar to enhance the productivity and competitiveness as well as capacity building of MSME Units in the NE Region.

The seminar was attended by different entrepreneurs of the NE Region and groups of people from NGO and Self help group and Media.

The seminar was divided into two sessions - The first session was the inaugural session which was done by Shri Prafulla Kr Saikia, Additional Director, DIC, and Government of Assam, Guest of Honor for the Seminar.

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